January 2011
72 posts
i am suffering from a lack of new gadgets - I start getting twitchy with no new gadgets.
Good morning all. I’m a teensy bit hungover this morning. had a great day with friends yesterday so no regrets.
the media are fucking assholes. leave the old man alone, he’s sick. your descending on his hospital does not fucking help.
#fuckcancer that is all
RT @ivovegter: For the love of Shakspere! If you’re making up words, do it right. It’s slacktivist/hacktivist, not slacktavist/hacktavist.
8 Portfolio Phrases That Send the Wrong Message
16 Comments Like corporate website, which use phrases like “innovative strategies” and “leading-edge solutions” ad naseum, many freelancers’ online portfolios tend to use some of the same tired phrases again and again. I combed through dozens of freelance websites (many of them discovered through FreelanceSwitch’s Find a...
Thundercats Is Coming Back, Baby!
Jan 27 2011THUNDERCATS IS COMING BACK, BABY! MORE: cartoon, cartoon network, childhood, daddy likes, emo, franchises are cyclical, i will watch it provided we can do it at your place and i can drink all your beers, it’s coming back!, kids, kids these days, show, sure why not, television, thunder thunder thundercats!!, thundercats!, we’ll see, yes please ...
Egypt Situation Gets Worse, People Reporting...
The world is watching in shock at the moment as reports continue to flood in of Egyptian protests mounting and the government pre-emptively striking back before tomorrow’s planned demonstrations by cutting off the nation’s Internet connection, along with access to social media services like Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry. Along with The Arabist and CNN’s Ben Wedeman, Reuters is now...
Introducing… Verseur
Thu, Jan 27 2011 Introducing… Verseur By shirley at 6:49 pm Verseur was the winner of our Wine Accessory brief with Wine Library TV host Gary Vaynerchuk, and it sure looks fine. This sleek looking product has everything you need to open, pour, and cap a bottle of wine. That certainly deserves a...
People Are Awesome: This Guy Turned Down $12...
The Kansas City Royals pitcher Gil Meche is retiring from baseball this season thanks to a chronic shoulder problem. Meche is 32 and he’s been in the majors for nearly 12 years, a lifetime for most professional athletes. Like every MLB player, Meche is guaranteed the money in his contract regardless of whether he plays or not, which means he should be getting $12 million in 2011...
RT @kirstybisset: RT @Cynicalgrinch: This guy is offering free hugs to people in yamakas. His sign should read: freshly squeezed jews.
RT @bennettarron: Woke up early and now looking at the sun rise over the Hawaiin coast. That poster was money well spent. (beautiful)
RT @barrytuck: RT @conradkoch: A prison named after Nelson Mandela? That’ just bad taste ANC. like running up to Jackie O with a rifle.
right - time to get some writing done. bring it on baby!
Jennifers body. Such a great movie. Cannot watch it enough times.
k back to real work.
How to Start Your Morning and Set up the Day for...
Some days are just golden right from the start. You get up bright and early, you have a good breakfast, your coffee is perfect, and you get through your most important work first. By lunchtime, you’re feeling great: you’ve covered significant ground and you want to push yourself to get even more done during the afternoon. Other days don’t go quite like that. In fact, for many people, these...
creating animated menu’s - NICE tutorial. http://ping.fm/YxZO6
10 Simple Tips To Get 250,000 Page Views Per Month
10 Simple Tips To Get 250,000 Page Views Per Month This is a guest post by Niall Harbison. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. When we started our business 16 months ago we decided to use a blog as the central marketing tool for our business. We did it because we didn’t really have any money for advertising and we never really believed that...
NSFW: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A...
So here’s an odd thing. Since TechCrunch was acquired by AOL, there has been a slight but appreciable uptick in the number of stories we’ve run about our new parent company. In the last month alone, we’ve reported their Q1 goals, three new content partnerships, their new SVP of technologies and even their latest billboard. None of this, I should hasten to add, is because AOL has told...
Tweeple. Have a spectacular week filled with joy and success and stuff. K. G’night.
RT @geoffliving: Why everything you know about influence is… WRONG! http://bit.ly/e1Qi4h @conversationage
28kg of labrador does not a lap dog make.
Review: The Green Hornet is Just the Right Amount...
Review: The Green Hornet is Just the Right Amount of Excitement January 15, 2011 by Jeremy Kirk Seth Rogen’s Britt Reid in The Green Hornet is not a likable character. He’s entitled. He’s spoiled. He goes through life without the slightest care for his actions or any long-term sensibilities of where he might be going. In essence, he’s Bruce Wayne...
A French Designer Brings Out Some Remarkable Wood...
Photos: Nicolas Scordia, J.P. Cervel, via OlivierDollé.com There’s something great about wood furniture- it’s solid, aesthetically pleasing, and has a lot of green potential, if it comes from reclaimed or sustainable sources. French designer and architect Olivier Dollé has come out with a line of wood furnishings that help remind us exactly where the wood they’re made of...
new blog post - one of a series on some fab establishments in Jozi, http://ping.fm/3GsSs (RT and people will find you VERY attractive)
8 Ways to Collect Enough Blog Post Ideas for the...
Grapes of Wrath author John Steinbeck once said, “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” He’s right. Successful bloggers are always watching and listening—on the lookout for new ideas. And the more you listen, the more you seem to find. In fact, some bloggers have so many that they don’t know what to do with them. They...
Transcend Goggles
For backcountry trailblazers, Recon Instruments’ new Transcend goggles introduce advanced technology for carving your own path while providing essential protection from sun and snow. The GPS-enabled goggles “require minimal interaction” yet boast an impressive amount of features, including a full-color micro LCD display, Google Maps overlay, real-time statistics (speed,...
Illana Welman – Styling and Photography
Illana Welman – Styling and Photography This is some of the work of Durban born, Cape Town bred stylist and photographer Illana Welman. Having no formal training she is a true example of raw talent. Illana tells us how she got into doing what she does,”I started styling in 2008 thanks to my photographer boyfriend Justin Mcgee and one of my best friends and model Shannon...
The Freelancer Workout
8 Comments Credit: ~ggvic~/Flickr Know what my goal is for 2011? To not buy a gym membership. I’m one of those people who pay high sums to keep the equipment at my gym clean and untouched. As a freelance writer, you’d think I’d be able to find a few hours a week to hit the gym (I must think so too since I keep renewing my...
Five Ways To Improve Online Influence Measures
Regular readers of my posts here and at BrandSavant know that I have, on occasion, raised questions about various measures of online influence. No, they are not perfect, and in some cases are downright meaningless. Lately, though, I’ve been hearing that still, small voice in my head: “Don’t bring me problems, Webster – bring me solutions.” There are some positive aspects of these measures...
Selling a Theme by the Thousands: What Thesis...
About two years ago, Chris Pearson’s WordPress theme, Thesis, passed the $2 million mark in total sales. It’s a remarkable achievement for a design-based product, particularly given the industry. Here is a theme-not a platform, but a theme-beating many of the world’s leading independent design firms in revenue, all through passive sales. This means that the design industry no longer offers...
The World is in your Hand…Explore it with your...
‘WWW’, three letters and you witness a bizarre in an edifice of a network giving you anything you want. The World Wide Web also the Internet had its foundations from a scratch when the U.S army had a requisition for an efficient network. Since then it has been dwindling in size and hasn’t yet stopped. Comparing it a revolution of transitional changes for example weapons, where once the bow...
thanks everyone. you’re all too sweet. :)
New blog post, ranting about the Arizona shooting. RT if you like it. http://ping.fm/NOAUk Thank you.
wow. i’m getting old. 1 late night - and 1 extended meeting with my cousins, and i’m fairly brain dead today.
RT @rashdashtheatre: CALL FOR COLLABORATORS. Looking for musician/composer/performer for our next show. http://www.rashdash.co.uk/ Please rt
wow - Sarah Palin and her goons are truly psychotic. http://ht.ly/3AWyg
Just got home from a great night out. My bed is calling.
RT @edgarwright: I have a bit of a headache. Please RT. Maybe if we all pull together we can beat this mild discomfort. Come on people.
New Blog post - about touch and dismembering rubber lizards. If you like it and you know it - RT it. http://ht.ly/3AqlL
Touch Therapy | DigiPixlet
I’m semi amused? very bemused? By this revolutionary article on CNN – for the full article click here – and the reason for this amusement is two fold. As some of you may or may not know. I’m a Reiki practitioner. Yes, it is the full blown flaming hippie in me that believes that it works, and that offers treatments, and Reiki’s everything within touching distance from me. That does...
Moon Bowls
Designed specifically for the opaque liquids of unfiltered sake or Korean rice wine, these new Moon Bowls put a cleverly beautiful spin on sipping your beverage. The cups are designed with a small crescent-shaped shelf inside. Filling the glass starts you off with a full moon but—providing you sip and don’t chug the milky potable—the liquid contents wane down to a crescent...
10 Tips to Help You get the Most out of Your New...
A Guest Post by Children and Baby Photographer David Moore from Clearing the Vision. With the holiday season now over perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to receive a new DSLR camera as a gift. But once the wrapping paper’s off, you might be wondering where to start. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your new camera, especially if you’re...
5 Reasons Not to Give Up Your Blog Because of...
Have you been neglecting your blog? Are you spending time on social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter trying to “master” the way to make money and not spending time on your blog? Maybe someone told you that blogs are dead and it’s time to bury it? @Markwschaefer wrote a blog post regarding this topic before. I took a short quote from Mark’s blog. The most...
Something about this strikes me as awesome. Lady Gaga takes on eye contact in her own unique way. http://ping.fm/Wq0jC
Something about this strikes me as awesome. Lady Gaga takes on eye contact in her own unique way. http://ping.fm/Wq0jC
Something about this strikes me as awesome. Lady Gaga takes on eye contact in her own unique way. http://ping.fm/8yaAn
I cannot explain how much I love this. Almost as much as Cheerios. Zombie Stationery. http://ping.fm/DB8I1
Bill O'Reilly thinks the tides are proof of God's...
DOWNLOADS: (116) PLAYS: (2120) Embed Bill O’Reilly’s show is becoming a real snoozefest these days, which may be why I glazed over his discussion of religion with David Silverman of American Atheists earlier this week, which mostly entailed O’Reilly accusing atheists of...